Pocket match-safe.



W M i A M m J. H. ROYER.

POCKET MATCH SAFE.

APPLICATION FILED D30. 8, 1919 Patented July 18, 1911. I 2 snnms-snnm 1.

COLUMBIA 20.. WASHINGTON, n. C.

J. H. BUYER.

POCKET MATCH SAFE.

.APPLIOATION FILED D3119, 1910.

998,399. H Patented July 18,1911.

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COLUMBIA PLANOORAPH 60.. WASHINGTON. D. C.

JOHN H. ROYER, OF DAKOTA, ILLINOIS.

POCKET MATCH-SAFE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 18, 1911.

Application filed December 8, 1910. Serial No. 596,248.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. Borne, a citizen of the United States,residing at Dakota in the county of Stephenson and State of Illinois,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pocket Match-Safes; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in pocket match safes.

One object of the invention is to provide a pocket match box having animproved construction of match holding and delivering mechanism wherebyone match at a time may be removed from the box and having means wherebywhen one match is removed another will be brought up in position to beejected.

With this and other objects in view, the invention consists of certainnovel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts aswill be more fully described and particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of myimproved match safe showing a match partly ejected therefrom; Fig. 2 isa horizontal sectional view thereof on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 isa vertical sectional view on the line 38 of Fig. 2 showing in dottedlines the manner in which a match is ejected; Fig. 4: is a verticalsectional view on the line 4-4: of Fig. 52; Fig. 5 is a similar view onthe line 5-5 of Fig. 2 with parts removed; Fig. 6 is a verticalsectional view of the web winding roller; Fig. 7 is a sectionalperspective view of a portion of the box showing the construction andarrangement of the match ejecting mechanism; Fig. 8 is a detailperspective view of the inner end of the web and the follower securedthereto.

In the embodiment of the invention I provide a box or casing 1 which maybe of any suitable shape but which is preferably of flat oblong formwith rounded ends as shown. The box 1 is provided with a fixed top 2 anda hinged bottom 3 which is held in closed position by a spring catch 1.In one end of the box is arranged a vertically disposed spiral partition5 which forms a spiral passage 6 in which is arranged the matchescontained in the box. The inner and outer ends of the passage are closedby the right angularly bent ends 7 and 8 of the partition as shown andin the angular-1y bent end 8 of the partition at the outer end of thepassage is formed vertical slots 9 and 10, the purpose of which will behereinafter described.

In the end of the box opposite to that containing the spiral partition 5is arranged a roller shaft 11 the opposite ends of which are fixedlysecured in cross strips 12 ar ranged in the top and bottom of the box.

On the shaft 11 is revolubly mounted a spring web winding roller 13 inthe lower end of which is formed a socket 14: having arranged therein acoiled spring 15 one end of which is secured to the shaft and the otherend to the roller, as shown.

Secured at one end to the roller 13 and adapted to be wound on and offthe same is a match shifting web 16, the outer end of which is passedthrough the slot 9 in the end 8 of the spiral partition 5. To the end ofthe web after being passed through the slot 9 is secured a followerblock or strip 17. The strip 17 and outer portion of the web is drawnaround through the passage 6 to the stop plate at the inner end of thepartition 5 and passage 6. In the passage 6 between the follower strip17 and the end plate 8 of the passage are arranged a sufficient numberof matches to fill this space.

The matches are preferably arranged with the head of every other matchprojecting up and the heads of the intermediate matches projecting down,as shown. When thus arranged the tension of the spring roller will beapplied to the web 16 to rewind the same thus moving the matches towardthe outer end of the passage 6. The web when thus wound on the springroller will be drawn through the slot 9 in the end 8 while the matcheswill be stopped by said end and will be held thereby in position to beejected one at a time from the box through a discharge passage 23 bymeans of an ejecting mechanism hereinafter described.

Slidably mounted in the end of the box adjacent to the plate 8 is amatch ejecting member, comprising a vertically disposed plate 19 havingon its lower end a foot 20 in which is formed a notch 21 whereby theparts of the same are engaged with the opposite sides of the plate 8 asshown.

The portion of the foot 20 which projects into the passage 6 and engagesthe inner side of the plate 8 is adapted to receive one match at a timewhich is forced thereon by the pressure of the adjacent matches andfollower strip 17 l/Vith the outer portion of the foot is engaged thelower end of a retracting spring 22, adapted to retract the ejectingmechanism after the same has been projected to eject a match through amatch ejecting hole 23 in the top of the box as shown. The ejectingplate and foot are raised against the pressure of the spring 22, bymeans of a handle and knob 24: which projects through a slot 25 formedin the adjacent side of the box as shown.

It will be understood that in the operation of the safe the spring inthe web.wind ing roller will wind the web thereon thus drawing thefollower strip and matches along through the spiral match passage towardthe outer end of the same each time a match is removed in the mannerdescribed. After all of the matches have thus been removed the hingedbottom of the boX is opened and the follower strip and web drawn back tothe inner end of the passage and the latter again filled with matches.In thus drawing the follower strip and web back through the passage theweb is unwound from the roller thereby revolving the latter in a reversedirection and rewinding the spring.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, the construction and operation of the invention will bereadily understood without requiring a more extended explanation.

Various changes in the form, proportion and the minor details ofconstruction may be resorted to without departing from the principle orsacrificing any of the advan tages of the invention as defined in theappended claim.

Having thus described my invention what I claim is A match safecomprising a casing having a partition therein arranged to form a matchchamber closed at its opposite ends, one end wall of the chamber beingsecured at a right angle against the casing and having a longitudinalslot therein, the casing also being provided, adjacent the slotted endwall of the chamber, with a longitudinal slot, an L-shaped match ejectorarranged in the casing adjacent the slotted end wall of the chamber andprovided with a handle member extending through the slot in the easing,the foot or short arm of the L-shaped ejector extending inward from thecasing and provided with a lateral extension within the match chamberhaving a transverse open slot straddling the slotted end wall of thechamber and guiding the match ejector in its longitudinal movementwithin and without the chamber, and means for propelling matches intoposition endwise over the extension of the ejector to be ejectedthereby.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

JOHN H. ROYER.

Vitnesses H. BUTTERFIELD, GEO. S. SMITH.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. C.

